I didn't mean to make everyone cry! Hopefully, it was a "good" cry--if you know what I mean--one that sort of makes you feel better at the same time. The reason the Ben Stein article hits home for me is because my mother was relentless where I was concerned. Her last couple of years were extremely difficult. I knew my father had dementia, but it wasn't until he passed away that I realized that she had it as well. Towards the end, she was incredibly paranoid where I was concerned. She accused me of every bad thing in the book, including telling everyone she knew that I never called her, that I hadn't visited her "in years", that I had "stolen" all of her money, etc., etc. This was despite the fact that my husband and I did everything we could to look after her. She took to calling me dozens of times a day--so much so that I had to avoid many of her calls. At the very end, she didn't even know who I was; however that was only in her last couple
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Thanks for posting the link! (I say as I wipe the tears from my eyes). I, too, have lost my mother and I miss her very much.
As an only child too, I lost both of my parents 10 months apart.
For us it would be the atmosphere of the town, the sense of community and the people.
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